Democratic Party President Katsuya Okada criticized U.S. Vice President Joe Biden on Thursday for stating that Japan’s pacifist constitution was written by the United States. Okada said the comment, made Monday as Biden attacked Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s proposal to let Japan obtain ...

Ahead of an election for the main opposition Democratic Party in September, DP President Katsuya Okada is facing pressure from its conservative members to step down. In his online newsletter on Wednesday, former State Minister of Economy, Trade and Industry Teruhiko Mashiko urged Okada ...

Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada on Thursday reiterated that the main opposition party is against revising the war-renouncing Article 9 of the Constitution, but indicated there may be room to discuss amendments in other areas. While urging Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to rethink his ...

Katsuya Okada, president of the Democratic Party, said he will not resign immediately over the party’s disappointing showing in the Upper House election and failure to prevent forces in favor of constitutional reform from securing a two-thirds majority. The party appears to have derived ...

The president of the biggest opposition party on Monday dared Prime Minister Shinzo Abe to face him in a televised debate over the next two weeks leading up to the Upper House election, calling his refusal to do so unheard-of in recent years. Democratic ...

A strong victory for Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s Liberal Democratic Party in next month’s Upper House election would spell an end to postwar pacifism and “completely change the way Japan is,” according to Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada. “I have an extremely strong sense ...

Democratic Party leader Katsuya Okada said Sunday he will not run for the presidency in September if the opposition party’s candidate in his hometown loses in the Upper House election. The DP candidate in Mie Prefecture, Hirokazu Shiba, and a candidate backed by the ...

The Democratic Party will pledge in the coming Upper House election campaign to enhance social security, with the funding coming through reforms, and oppose revising the Constitution’s war-renouncing Article 9, according to sources. DP leader Katsuya Okada argued earlier that the government should rely ...

Katsuya Okada, leader of the largest opposition Democratic Party, has sounded out two other opposition parties about creating a unified list of candidates for the proportional representation part of this summer’s Upper House election. Okada hopes to formally propose the idea to the Social ...